Hardwood Floor Cleaning in Horn Lake, MS
Nothing you can buy in a bottle will do as much for a wood floor as the right mat in the right place, and almost every house has the wrong one.
The research on this is not subtle. Most of the soil that ends up inside a building walks in on shoes, and the great majority of it comes off in the first several steps if there is something there to take it.
Which means the mat at your door is doing more to protect your floors than everything else combined, and a decorative mat two feet long is doing almost none of it.
The Number That Matters Is Length
A person takes roughly a step every two and a half feet. To get both feet onto a mat twice you need something in the region of ten to fifteen feet of matting, which is why commercial buildings have those long entrance runs and houses do not. You cannot have fifteen feet indoors, and you can get much closer than two. An outdoor mat, a threshold mat, and a runner inside gets you most of the way there.
Two Mats, Two Jobs
Outside you want a stiff scraper: coarse rubber or bristle that knocks off the solid material. Inside you want absorbency: something that takes water and fine grit off the sole and holds it. One mat cannot do both jobs well, and the single decorative mat most houses have does neither.
The Backing Rule
Never rubber against a wood floor for anything left in place. Compounds in rubber backings migrate into a floor finish and leave a permanent print in the shape of the backing pattern. It does not clean off and it survives light sanding. Felt or natural fiber backing, and lift the mat occasionally so the floor under it can breathe.
Not sure whether your floor needs cleaning or refinishing? There are three tests you can run yourself in about a minute, and they will tell you which one you are dealing with before anyone quotes you.
Hardwood problems we handle in Horn Lake
Sort the mats out first, then book the floor. Call 662-932-3313 or use the form on the site, and the first cleaning is $50 off.
Areas we cover around Horn Lake
Neighborhoods: Nail Road, Center Hill, Goodman Road, Church Road, Windchase, Horn Lake Creek, Lake Park, Lakeshore, Meadowbrook, Tulane
Zip codes: 38637
Hardwood questions from Horn Lake homeowners
How often should the mats be cleaned?
More often than anybody does. A saturated mat has stopped working and has become a reservoir that puts grit back on shoes. Shake weekly and wash monthly.
Does a shoes-off rule replace mats?
It beats them, comfortably, and it is the single most effective thing any household can do for its floors. Mats are for the traffic that will not follow the rule, which in most houses is most of it.
What about the garage door, since nobody uses the front?
That is the door that needs the best setup in the house, and it is usually the one with nothing at all. Put the good mats where the traffic actually is.
Is this enough on its own?
It slows the wear a great deal and it does not remove the product film that builds up over years. That part still needs a proper clean, just less often.
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